◇ image via WikipediaRichard "Groove" Holmes
Richard "Groove" Holmes is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Les McCann, Lou Rawls, Dakota Staton, Jimmy Smith and Gerald Wilson. Those roots explain a lot about how Richard "Groove" Holmes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Reuben Wilson, Jack McDuff, Ronnie Foster, Gene Harris & The Three Sounds and The New Mastersounds, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jimmy McGriff and Weldon Irvine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Richard "Groove" Holmes, reaching back through Les McCann and forward to Jimmy McGriff. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Richard "Groove" Holmes connections
Richard "Groove" Holmes grew out of Les McCann, Lou Rawls, Dakota Staton and Jimmy Smith, shares an orbit with Reuben Wilson, Jack McDuff, Ronnie Foster and Gene Harris & The Three Sounds, went on to shape Jimmy McGriff and Weldon Irvine. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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